Leidos Defense and Intelligence Group is seeking a Kafka Software and Data Engineer to support our DISA Joint Regional Security Stack (JRSS) team in Springfield, VA or Ft. Meade MD. You must hold an active Secret Clearance to qualify and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

In this role the you will support the design, development, testing and deployment of a Kafka-based data brokering solution, an open-source stream-processing software platform, within the JRSS architecture.

Primary Responsibilities

Review and provide inputs on overall systems and detailed engineering plansProvide analysis and support for the architecture and design of a Kafka-based data brokering system. Build, integrate, and test prototypes and final implementations in the Ft. Meade Lab. Deploy the Kafka systems into production. Provide tier 2 and 3 operational support of the Kafka software as needed.

Required Qualifications:

Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. Equivalent work experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

Must hold active Secret clearance with eligibility to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance.

Experience building and operating multi-tier web applications, including REST APIs

Experience with 2 or more of the following databases: RDBMS (Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer), NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase)

Basic Network Experience-TCP/IP, Firewalls / Firewall Rules

Importance of Network Time and Name Resolution

Authentication/Authorization

Data Encryption - using library like JCE

Certificates - Server vs. Client

Ability to generate root and child certs

Troubleshooting of CA and Server Certs

Messaging Experience (e.g., JMS, IBM MQ, Tibco, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)

Experience with and understanding of data formats and serialization options

Familiarity with Flink, Storm, Spark

Familiarity with Microservices

Involvement in the Open Source Development / Community

GSM-OExternal Referral Eligible

External Referral Bonus:Eligible

Potential for Telework:No

Clearance Level Required:Secret

Travel:Yes, 10% of the time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:40

Shift:Day

Requisition Category:Professional

Job Family:Data Scientist

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Defense & Intel

Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company’s 31,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $10.17 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2017. (NYSE: LDOS) All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.